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The dinosaur of the day: Indosuchus

Abelisaurid that lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now India

Bipedal, carnivore

Medium-sized, about 23 ft (7 m) long, and weighed 1.2 tonnes

Had a narrow crested skull that was flattened on the top

Type species is Indosuchus raptorius

Described in 1933 by Charles Alfred Matley and Friedrich von Huene

Genus name means Indian crocodile (suchus comes from Ancient Greek for the Egyptian crocodile god). Friedrich von Huene apparently liked to give dinosaurs the name “suchus” instead of “saurus” because he thought crocodiles were more closely related to dinosaurs than lizards

Species name means “raptorial” in Latin

Not to be confused with Indosaurus, theropod that lived in India, named same year 1933 by same people, Matley and Huene)

Huene name Indosuchus in a monograph in 1933, based on fossils from three partial skulls found by Charles Matley of the Geological Survey of India in 1917-19 in the Lameta Group (in the same monograph, Huene and Matley also described sauropods, Huene described Indosuchus and Indosaurus, and Matley described a stegosaur)

Both Indosuchus and Indosaurus were originally described as carnosaurs, close to allosaurids, based on their skull

In 1956 Romer found Indosaurus and Indosuchus to be junior synonyms of the megalosaurid Orthogoniosaurus, but in 1966 he reclassified Orthogoniosaurus to the family Tyrannosauridae

In 1964 Walker found that Orthogoniosaurus was based on one tooth and was indeterminable, and separated Indosuchus and Indosaurus into different families

In 1964 Walker found that Indosuchus was a tyrannosaur

Sankar Chatterjee in 1978 confirmed that Indosuchus was a tyrannosaur, based on analysis of some of the original material and also referred specimens that Barnum Brown had found in 1922 near Jabalpu, Central India (pair of premaxillae, left maxilla, right denture, two caudal vertebrae, all possibly from one individual), that Robert Long found 50 years later at the AMNH and passed on to Chatterjee

However, the discovery of Carnotaurus and other abelisaurids helped show Indosuchus was not a tyrannosaur. In 1986 José Bonaparte said it was an abelisaurid

Chatterjee found that Indosuchus had continuous dental lamina (tissue in tooth development), and it replaced teeth regularly even into old age (unlike Crocodilia)

Lived with a large variety of dinosaurs, including sauropods, coelurosaurs, carnosaurs, ankylosaurs

Fun Fact: The full name of Utahraptor is Utahraptor ostrommaysi. However it is often incorrectly called Utahraptor ostrommaysorum.